Wild Spain
A Traveller's Guide
3rd Edition
Published on 1. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-873329-32-0 (ISBN)
Description
With a compelling sureness of touch, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Frederic V. Grunfeld offers the reader an intimate knowledge of Spain gained over twenty-five years. He takes the intending traveller south from the Pyrenees, across the central meseta of Castilla and Aragon and down to Andalucia. He finds wild mountain walks above the tourist resorts of Mallorca and dragon trees on the island of Tenerife. Grunfeld's flair for portraiture shines through wherever he goes: 'Here are fieldstone houses and Romanesque churches', he writes, 'that seem to grow out of their hilltop sites like so many stone mushrooms. Except for telephone and electric lines you could easily imagine yourself back in the Middle Ages.' Following the personal style set by the series, he indulges his own fancies, wandering through La Mancha in the steps of Don Quixote and tilting against his own windmills in the form of the shoe-box hotels of the Spanish Mediterranean. This edition has been completely revised with the assistance of the Ministry of Environment in Madrid.
The editors have revisited exploration zones and added hotels, itineraries and new train and bus information, with fax numbers, e-mail addresses and web-site details. The entire text has been reset, bringing this established guide-book fully up to date.
The editors have revisited exploration zones and added hotels, itineraries and new train and bus information, with fax numbers, e-mail addresses and web-site details. The entire text has been reset, bringing this established guide-book fully up to date.
Reviews / Votes
"'Compact, lavishly illustrated, intelligently written, it is a model of its kind.' - Lookout. 'A wonderful hybrid of practical travel guide and literary paean.' - Douglas Schatz, The Bookseller."More details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
England
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
50 colour and 45 b&w illustrations, 8 colour and 18 b&w maps
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
419 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-873329-32-0 (9781873329320)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Book
06/1992
2nd Edition
Aurum Press
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Persons
Frederic V. Grunfeld lived in Mallorca for more than 25 years and travelled extensively in mainland Spain. He wrote for Time-Life Books on Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Scandinavia as well as on places beyond Europe. Among his publications are "Prophets Without Honour", a history of German-Jewish thinkers and artists, "The Art and Times of the Guitar", "Wayfarers of the Thai Forest" and a biography of Auguste Rodin, for which he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Content
About the Series. Wild Spain: An Introduction - Map of Spain showing Chapter Areas. The Key to Spain's Wild Places - The Shape of the Wild, Wild Habitats, Protected Wild Places. Chapter 1: The Pyrenees - La Garrotxa, Cadi-Moixero, Aiguestortes and Estany de Sant Maurici, Vall d'Aran, Valle de Benasque, Ordesa, San Juan de la Pena and Canfranc, Roncesvalles. Chapter 2: Northern Spain - Orduna and Sierra Salvada, Las Marismas de Santona, Las Sierras Palentinas and Alto Campoo, Picos de Europa, Somiedo and Pajares, El Bierzo, Islas Cies. Chapter 3: North Meseta - Sierra de Gredos, Sierra de Guadarrama, La Cuenca Alta del Manzanares, Sierra de Ayllon, Sierra de la Demanda, Sierra de Pena de Francia, Camino de Santiago. Chapter 4: South Meseta - Serrania de Cuenca, Montes Universales, Sierra de Albarracin, Alto Tajo, Laguna de Gallocanta, Las Lagunas de Ruidera, Tablas de Daimiel, Montfrague. Chapter 5: The Mediterranean Coast - Aiguamolls de l'Emporda, Illes Medes, Montseny, Montserrat, Delta del Ebro, Puertos de Beseit, L'Albufera de Valencia, Sierra Espuna. Chapter 6: Andalucia - Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas, Sierra Nevada and Las Alpujarras, El Torcal de Antequera, Fuente de Piedra, Lagunas de Cordoba, Grazalema, Laguna de Medina, Donana, Las Marismas del Odiel, Sierra de Aracena, Sierra Morena. Chapter 7: The Balearic Islands - Mallorca, Archipielago de Cabrera, Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera. Chapter 8: The Canary Islands - Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Gomera, Hierro, La Palma. Glossary. Further Reading. Useful Addresses. Index.